'a long way gone' by https://padlet.com/19kroening743/8n431p106x9k Ishmael Beah en-us 2017-03-21 18:50:40 UTC 2025-10-23 11:42:09 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Prizecup.png Chapter #1 19kroening743 https://padlet.com/19kroening743/8n431p106x9k/wish/161643762
To Ishmael hearing the war is in his country named Sierra Leone he feels like it's not happening, its like he has no feelings. They have been attacked by rebels. While the war is happening he thinks about his parents and how they would have reacted with his little brother. 
  • Know: What does he know is happening?
He knows the war is happening but don't want to think it. 
  • Cares about?
He cares about what his parents would think and react if this was happening with them here.
]]> 2017-03-21 19:34:03 UTC https://padlet.com/19kroening743/8n431p106x9k/wish/161643762 Chapter #2 19kroening743 https://padlet.com/19kroening743/8n431p106x9k/wish/161646355
  • Connect: What from this chapter connects to the anchor charts and presentations we have created and heard this trimester?
  • I'm going to connect this back to the poster of child soldiers because I feel like when Ishmael was carrying the body out of the wheelbarrow he had fell to the ground and saw blood coming out of the body in the white sheets, I feel like it connects to the Child Soldiers because I feel like there making him do things that are to hard from him. 


    • Extend: What new things did you learn about Ishmael? about what is happening in his world?
    He's been in the US but he still can't forget what he had let happen to Sierra.

    • Challenge: What questions do you have about Ishmael, Sierra Leone, etc thus far?

    How will he get over it? Why he is so upset when there's nothing he can do?
    ]]>     2017-03-21 19:44:41 UTC https://padlet.com/19kroening743/8n431p106x9k/wish/161646355     Chapter #3 19kroening743 https://padlet.com/19kroening743/8n431p106x9k/wish/161647783 Everyone is still in a lot of danger and the Rebels sent the message that they were going to be attacked very soon. 

    The rebels arrived and no one was really prepared

    Everyone freaking out. Theirs blood and body's everywhere. People were getting stuck in the mud but no one is going to help because they know they would die too.  ]]>     2017-03-21 19:51:27 UTC https://padlet.com/19kroening743/8n431p106x9k/wish/161647783     Chapter 4-5 19kroening743 https://padlet.com/19kroening743/8n431p106x9k/wish/165464751 They went back to Mattru Jong and they had stole peoples food while they slept. They been caught by the rebels and the prisoners had been set free. They are trying to leave but..... How?]]> 2017-04-07 19:15:08 UTC https://padlet.com/19kroening743/8n431p106x9k/wish/165464751 6-7 19kroening743 https://padlet.com/19kroening743/8n431p106x9k/wish/165471044 Captured by village passing, they got away with there rap music. It saved them. Kama tor ( farming village) 3 months farmed. The village got attacked and the boys split up. ]]> 2017-04-07 20:02:03 UTC https://padlet.com/19kroening743/8n431p106x9k/wish/165471044 Chapter #8 19kroening743 https://padlet.com/19kroening743/8n431p106x9k/wish/165972893 Forest by himself. Lonely, trying not to think. Wild animals. Meet's up with 6 other boys known as ''Seven boys''. People are scared if them, think they are hostile. Trying to get to Yele. I think that there going to come across another villagers or the people that are part of the war. ]]> 2017-04-11 19:45:58 UTC https://padlet.com/19kroening743/8n431p106x9k/wish/165972893 Chapter #9 19kroening743 https://padlet.com/19kroening743/8n431p106x9k/wish/167575978 Connect: He had a new group of people and they had got caught again and they used a rap.

    Extend: He didn't really start talking to his new group, only about school and soccer

    Challenge: Some things that were challenging for him was walking when it was really really hot and with no shoes. ]]>     2017-04-21 19:23:29 UTC https://padlet.com/19kroening743/8n431p106x9k/wish/167575978     Chapter #10 19kroening743 https://padlet.com/19kroening743/8n431p106x9k/wish/168226292 Saidu dies, we dont know from what.
    They found a place with food but they cant stay cause they think war will come. ]]>     2017-04-25 20:01:43 UTC https://padlet.com/19kroening743/8n431p106x9k/wish/168226292     Chapter #11 19kroening743 https://padlet.com/19kroening743/8n431p106x9k/wish/168969659 The boys are sad about Saidu but are walking to another village they here gun shots and started running. They were burning down bridges.  

    ]]>     2017-04-28 19:28:12 UTC https://padlet.com/19kroening743/8n431p106x9k/wish/168969659     Chapter #12 19kroening743 https://padlet.com/19kroening743/8n431p106x9k/wish/168973000 They got caught and were in a boat with soldiers. 
    The soldiers were protecting the village so they could work. 
    The soldiers had to go fight in the forest but not all of them came back. They were all afraid. ]]>     2017-04-28 19:51:38 UTC https://padlet.com/19kroening743/8n431p106x9k/wish/168973000     Chapter #13 19kroening743 https://padlet.com/19kroening743/8n431p106x9k/wish/169527158 They became soldiers and starting shooting. Hes observing battles and death of friends. Hes learning that there's not that many choices you have when it comes to things around you and you only have so many things to choose from even if your not interested in doing those things. ]]> 2017-05-02 19:16:34 UTC https://padlet.com/19kroening743/8n431p106x9k/wish/169527158 Chapter #14 19kroening743 https://padlet.com/19kroening743/8n431p106x9k/wish/169530746 There getting more into becoming soldiers and getting use to it, to where that's all they do. They also killed a couple rebels. Its important to him to kill people. ]]> 2017-05-02 19:34:44 UTC https://padlet.com/19kroening743/8n431p106x9k/wish/169530746 Chapter #16 19kroening743 https://padlet.com/19kroening743/8n431p106x9k/wish/170869026 Ishmael thinks everyone is against him but there just trying to help him. He knows that there a night terrors. He knows he had to go to school. There going through a drug withdraw ]]> 2017-05-09 19:36:56 UTC https://padlet.com/19kroening743/8n431p106x9k/wish/170869026 #17 19kroening743 https://padlet.com/19kroening743/8n431p106x9k/wish/171089741 Ishmael is having night terror about his family dying. Hes over thinking a lot. He just wants to be appreciated and love and doesn't want to be judge for fighting in the war. ]]> 2017-05-10 18:21:09 UTC https://padlet.com/19kroening743/8n431p106x9k/wish/171089741 Chapter #15 19kroening743 https://padlet.com/19kroening743/8n431p106x9k/wish/171090010  Ishmael spends 2 years in the army but then let him go. 
    A UNICEF pulled up the people inside the truck were telling them what to do. 
    They start getting angry.
     ]]>     2017-05-10 18:22:07 UTC https://padlet.com/19kroening743/8n431p106x9k/wish/171090010     Chapter #18 19kroening743 https://padlet.com/19kroening743/8n431p106x9k/wish/171570234 -  Ishmael has a new family. 
    - I think he feels happy about having a new family because they don't really wanna mention the war and i think that's what he needs right now to keep him not sad]]>     2017-05-12 19:24:08 UTC https://padlet.com/19kroening743/8n431p106x9k/wish/171570234     Chapter #19 19kroening743 https://padlet.com/19kroening743/8n431p106x9k/wish/171574806 -Ishmael thought a elevator was a box.
    - He told someone on his interview about his past and how he knows about the war because he was apart of it.
    - He gets shots.
    -He on his way to the UN for a confreres


    ]]>     2017-05-12 19:59:41 UTC https://padlet.com/19kroening743/8n431p106x9k/wish/171574806     Chapter #20 19kroening743 https://padlet.com/19kroening743/8n431p106x9k/wish/174833230 Everything Ishmael knows about new York comes from a rap. 

    He got a adoptive mother, he stated walking down the road

    ]]>     2017-06-01 15:19:25 UTC https://padlet.com/19kroening743/8n431p106x9k/wish/174833230     Chapter #21 19kroening743 https://padlet.com/19kroening743/8n431p106x9k/wish/174834685 - He tells his family about New York and they were really impressed with him.

    On may 25 everything turned upside down again. 

    One day, a hunter goes out into the bush and comes across a monkey that he'd like to shoot. But before he has the chance, the monkey turns to him and says, "If you shoot me, your mother will die, and if you don't, your father will die." At the end of the story, the storyteller would always ask the children what would they do.]]>     2017-06-01 15:25:22 UTC https://padlet.com/19kroening743/8n431p106x9k/wish/174834685